Criminal Minds star Paget Brewster has ruled out the possibility of a romance between her character Prentiss and Hotch (Thomas Gibson).

The actress admitted to TV Line that many fans of the CBS drama are in favour of the pairing.

"I've read [about some fans' desire for a romance] and I don't know how to respond to it," she said. "I understand it on the one hand, because in the real FBI, people work so closely and are only around each other, so chances are that sooner or later they date each other. In some ways, it's human nature."

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However, Brewster added that introducing a workplace romance into Criminal Minds would be "a really hard line to ride".

"The idea that Hotch and I might be fooling around in a roundtable room when children are dying somewhere is really not appealing," she suggested. "So I don't know if they'll ever write that. I really don't."